Kachina Doll
2021-4-3
From: United States of America | Arizona
Curatorial Section: American
Native Name | Soyok Wuhti |
Object Number | 2021-4-3 |
Current Location | Collections Storage |
Culture | Hopi |
Provenience | United States of America | Arizona |
Culture Area | Southwest Culture Area |
Date Made | 1980 - 1989 CE |
Section | American |
Materials | Wood | Paint | Fabric | Leather | Human Hair (uncertain) |
Description | Painted wooden figure of a Hopi ogre woman with yellow eyes, red ears,wide mouth showing teeth, and long brown hair in front of face. The figure wears a black cloth dress with green and red yarn decorations and a black manta shoulder cloth; both fabrics have red paint decoration. The figure wears tall white leather boots, black yarn adornments on the wrists. The proper right hand once held likely either a knife or a crook but this is now missing. |
Height | 29 cm |
Length | 15.2 cm |
Width | 14.3 cm |
Credit Line | Donated by Jan L. Bernstein, Esq., C79, in honor of Joan and James H. Bernstein, W52 |
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